Specialist Linux - Randburg, South Africa - Absa Bank Limited

Absa Bank Limited

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Randburg, South Africa

4 days ago

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Thabo Mthembu

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With over 100 years of rich history and strongly positioned as a local bank with regional and international expertise, a career with our family offers the opportunity to be part of this exciting growth journey, to reset our future and shape our destiny as a proudly African group.

Job Summary

Job Description:

Platform Engineering, Deployment & Optimisation

Leverage platform engineering expertise & a working knowledge of specific platforms and their constituent parts to positively contribute to platform feature and service designs
Take accountability for deeply understanding & building expertise on the platform, the platform contribution to the broader platform strategy & business and customer requirements & all available technologies
Develop business & customer aligned, lasting & innovative platform feature sets
Positively contribute to, define & implement the development/engineering lifecycle (end to end) and lead lifecycle improvements over successive releases.
Produce simple, extensible, and maintainable features with very few defects. Continually works to find and fix defects.
Leverage platform (service design & code) & engineering technical expertise to proactively identify risks and prevent defects
Identify patterns that reveal errors and unanticipated problems, and influence telemetry analytics design decisions
Ensure consistent, usable, forwardlooking, maintainable test infrastructure
Uphold our technical principles of: selfservice, scalability, reusability, resilience & stability in all development practices and deliver feature sets that sustainably deliver on these principles
Proactively identify development practices that work well & leverage & improve these for future solution design and deployment
Document feature set and constituent design information to produce solution design blueprints and validation collateral
Based on engineering & platform expertise and a sound knowledge of the business & customer requirements

consistently provide key ideas for the enhancement & optimization of the platform

Develop & document complete designs and implement testing processes that identify and eradicate platform or servicewide problems / improve on platform performance
Demonstrate a strong commitment to the quality & ongoing quality assurance of the product/service's in use, and take appropriate action to resolve issues throughout the lifecycle of the product or service
Ensure alignment to platform and service release plans for effective deployment of solution designs
Drive & implement design review processes & practices with the team & participate & positively contribute to design reviews for the feature area led by others
Cascade review lessons learnt for the benefit of the broader team
Continuously review & find ways to optimize team processes & improve engineering quality, productivity, and team responsiveness to feedback and changing priorities
Optimize, refactors and reuse components to improve performance and maintainability ensuring maximum efficiency, effectiveness, and return on investment
Take accountability for maintaining platform standards and best practices, and drive adoption across multiple service teams
Demonstrate knowledge of, identify & find required data for the ongoing monitoring & improvement of the platform feature area
Proactively monitor the performance of the platform features & solutions
Translate monitoring data into clearly articulated descriptions of opportunities & defects, their impact to the customer scenario and to the product or service as a whole, and the relevance to product and service targets (within scope of the job).
Cascade and communicate these insights across the team to influence platform decision making
Leverage production performance monitoring and customer data to make feature area technical design and implementation decisions.
Synthesize data from multiple sources and present & define concise, impactful conclusions that influence feature teams to solve defects and meet quality targets

Accountability:
Financial & Cost Optimization, Risk & Governance

Understand the platform cost model & the optimal cost : serve of the platform, use this understanding to drive the platform efficiency & effectiveness objectives
Proactively identify technical risks and mitigate these (pre, during & post release)
Update / Design all feature documentation aligned to the organization technical standards and risk / governance frameworks

Accountability:
People

Proactively & effectively (time & quality) collaborate & drive collaboration on features across feature team (e.g. managing dependencies & interdependencies, conflict resolution, information & best practice sharing, problem resolution outside of own area etc.)
Contribute to a high performance team environment & culture as a high performing member of a selfdirected team aligned to agile worki